IUCN threat status:

Distribution

Range Description

This species occurs from the south of Japan in the north to the island of Makasar in Indonesia in the south including Taiwan and the Philippines. There are separate populations in the Solomon Islands and Fiji (Rckel et al. 1995). Also found in the South China Sea and New Caledonia (G. T. Poppe pers. comm. 2011).The EOO, AOO and number of locations exceed the thresholds for criteria B1 and B2.